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Page last updated at 09:55 GMT, Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:55 UK

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A&E department was understaffed
A Black Country hospital had too few nurses on 73 occasions during the winter, the BBC learns.
Emergency care probed
Minister's bed crisis pledge

Ely Grove, Birmingham Two further arrests over murder
A boy and a woman are arrested in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old man in a Birmingham street.

Amitjo Kajla Prison officer 'was too pretty'
A former prison officer was forced out of her job after being bullied because she was pretty, a tribunal hears.

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Benefit tenants 'rip off' landlords
A policy change in the way housing benefit is paid has left some landlords fighting to collect rent payments.

Birmingham's bid for culture city
Birmingham is to make a bid to become the UK's first City of Culture for 2013, the city council announces.

Boy is airlifted after road crash
A boy, believed to be aged five, suffers head, back and arm injuries when he is hit by a car in the West Midlands.

Soldiers' bodies flown home
The bodies of eight British soldiers, including two from the West Midlands, are flown home to the UK.
Trampoline boy has cardiac arrest
A three-year-old boy dies after suffering a cardiac arrest while playing on a trampoline in Birmingham.

Model told of boyfriend 'threats'
A 19-year-old woman found stabbed to death told a friend her boyfriend had threatened to kill her, a court hears.

Head denies expense abuse
A panel fails to reach a decision in the case of a head teacher accused of using school funds for Caribbean holidays.

Car ploughs through bank window
Two people are taken to hospital with minor injuries after a car goes through the front window of a Birmingham bank.

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